At 13:40 18/03/01 -0800 Jason E Miller said....
>I doubt someone who wants to send mail to a measly 1600 people is going to
>want to spend $4,900.00 dollars on a mail program. I have done quite a bit
>of work with CFMAIL and integrating it into our Newsletter database and it
>has performed quite well. Just out of curiosity and not in anyway to start a
>flame war (I have not tested coolfusion's product so this is in no way a
>knock on it) I would like to hear the problems you have had when using
>custom written apps and CFMAIL? I especially like the simplicity of being
>able to send a personalized e-mail to every person on your list using
>CFMAIL - right down to inserting the custom information they have requested.
The principle failing on CFMail is that it will choke on high
volumes and if the recipients mail server is down no retries are
even attempted. Hence the various custom tags written to
re-schedule undeliverable mail. If you move them over from the
undeliverable dir into the spool again you will find that another
bunch will go. You can keep on doing this until you have a hard
core of undeliverable.
I would agree that $4900.00 would be a lot to handle 1600 emails
but I think you have missed the crux of the matter, in that Post SE
is, or was $75.00 per annum.
The price you are talking about is for the full suite of Ims server
I presume. You do not require that for the purpose we are
discussing and the PostSE sits and runs along side my main mail
server on the same machine as happy as Larry.
I am sure Howie can explain this better than I as well as clarify
the pricing and what you need to run it.
Gordon
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